Employment Opportunities

Purchasing Supervisor / Senior Buyer

Reports to:

Planning, Purchasing & Inventory Manager

Job Purpose:

The Pharma Works Purchasing position is to participate in the purchasing, production, organization, and distribution of parts and materials throughout the company in an engineer to order environment. The purchasing department processes engineering releases and ongoing changes to live production orders. The buyer must understand the “bill of material (BOM) concept.

Main Responsibilities

Purchase commercial and non-commercial parts and other operating supplies and/or services in a timely manner to support the manufacturing of finished goods and new product development.

Understanding of purchasing principles including the ability to research, analyze and negotiate.

Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment, and be able to manage and prioritize a dynamic workload.

Excellent communication, written, interpersonal and organizational skills. Professional phone and internal business etiquette a must. Must show a professional level of interpersonal communications skills while holding oneself calm, cool and collected at all times.

Persistence, determination and a desire to get the job done.

Problem solver while considering others ideas to achieve a common goal. Work as part of a team while remaining flexible.

Self-motivated and possesses the ability to complete tasks on-time and with little to no supervision in an organized and structured manner.

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including Excel, Word, Access and Outlook while also having MRP/ERP (Job Scope) experience.